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I see your arm — in short-sleeve uniform shirt — pumping back and forth, brutally beating.

I see the baton in that hand.

And do you, Police Chief Bill Blair, recognize this cop? Was he one of yours, pounding on Adam Nobody that awful day, June 26, 2010, when peaceful G20 protesters were assaulted by some law enforcement thugs at Queen’s Park?

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If so, what do you intend to do about it now, sir?

The Toronto Star has come into possession of a new piece of videotape shot by a bystander that afternoon. It is 12 minutes and 20 seconds long — 23 seconds of which capture a vicious cop pile-on, officers pounding on Nobody, a stage designer who changed his name two years ago from Adam Trombetta for the pun value.

This sequence is far more definitive and revealing of what happened in that incident than the disputed — by Blair, anyway —YouTube video scrutinized earlier by the Special Investigations Unit. The independent agency last week concluded it was unable to identify the officers involved and could therefore not lay charges.

But here is at least one cop who should be recognizable to anyone studying the images.

Which doesn’t mean Mr. Policeman is a member of the Toronto force, although it appears to be a Toronto police crest on his shoulder. Many others were brought in from across the country to supplement the local crew. But they were all under Blair’s command.

Neither this footage nor the YouTube piece show what happened only moments earlier; why Nobody drew such a ferocious response from a group of officers inside the perimeter that was simultaneously established by visored and shield-wielding cop colleagues, probably members of the Public Order Unit, given their strategic defensive positioning and the type of weapons they’re carrying.

Yet John Bridge, the web developer who shot the YouTube video, has sworn an affidavit in which he insists Nobody — who appeared to have a backpack strap in his right hand and a Bristol board sign in the left — had done nothing to threaten or endanger either the officers or anybody else in the vicinity. “At no time did I see Mr. Nobody assault or attempt to assault any of the officers,’’ the affidavit states.

Bridge was a bit further from the scene and with a different angle than the individual who shot this newly emergent footage.

The Star has agreed not to identify the young man by name at this time, but he’s a 23-year-old political science student from the University of Toronto who arrived at Queen’s Park with friends just as the situation escalated into violent confrontations.

“I wanted to participate in the protests because I believe the G20 is a non-democratic institution,’’ he told the Star on Monday, after bringing his footage to One Yonge, where it was screened by computer experts on staff.

“We started out at Queen’s Park and marched towards Dundas and Yonge but then we heard about a police car being set on fire there and we didn’t want to be any part of that. So we went back to Queen’s Park because that was the designated protest zone.’’

While a perimeter cordon held back the public, the student and his pals cut through the U of T campus, underneath the Wellesley St. bridge, and accessed the Legislature grounds.

“As soon as police rushed Nobody and tackled him, I started filming. I could see they were hurting him and he couldn’t defend himself. It was pretty terrifying.

“At that point, my displeasure with the G20 was outweighed by what I was seeing. I couldn’t believe that this was happening in my country. Other police were pounding on their shields and yelling but I kept shooting.’’

The student looked at his footage that night and later did attempt to post it on YouTube but was unsuccessful at uploading for technical reasons. He continued to follow, via the media, the G20 fallout controversy but only after belatedly watching the original YouTube posting did he realize what he had — visual confirmation of the assault on Nobody, evidence that Blair hotly rejected as doctored, unreliable and unfair.

The police chief said so on a radio show last Monday and then again in a news release put out formally by the Toronto Police Service.

Blair said: “I am disappointed that the SIU changed, fundamentally, the way they normally carry out their job in an investigation. Their job is very straightforward. Their mandate is to determine whether or not there is evidence to lay criminal charges, not to engage in speculation and guesswork.’’

The release said police had studied the YouTube footage, with Blair adding: “The SIU also went to the unprecedented step of directing people to a YouTube video. SIU director Ian Scott said . . . ‘the first allegation is corroborated by a video recording that was uploaded onto YouTube.’

“Over the weekend, that video was forensically examined. It is absolutely clear it has been tampered with. It has been edited. Audio and video have been removed. We have no way of knowing what has been removed. It is very likely that what has been removed sheds light on why the man was arrested, and why force was used.’’

But nothing was edited out, Bridge states in his affidavit. He simply turned the camera off for a few seconds, fearful police were moving in his direction, and then flicked it back on, the two pieces of tape joined.

This past Friday, Blair retracted his comments and apologized, to an extent.

“In an effort to demonstrate the potential significance of the missing audio and video, I said police were attempting to arrest an armed criminal and that the missing video images might have shed light on the reasons force was used,’’ he said in a statement.

“This statement created a false impression that I wish to clarify. I have no evidence that he was armed or violent and all charges against the injured man have been withdrawn. I regret the false impression that my comments may have created and apologize to Mr. Nobody.’’

On the videotape obtained by the Star, it appears Mr. Policeman had removed the badge number on his right shoulder — upwards of a hundred cops have since been docked a day’s pay for doing so that day.

The SIU has been able to identify two officers who allegedly participated in a later assault on Nobody. As subject officers, they exercised their right to decline questioning.

But they are not the officers in this second videotape.

Nobody suffered a broken nose and shattered cheek in what he claims were two separate incidents. After the original beating, Nobody — who would spend 31 hours in jail and three days in hospital — says he was taken behind some police wagons and beaten again by two plainclothes officers.

The cop listed on Nobody’s arrest record gave the booking officer a badge number that doesn’t correspond to anyone on the Toronto force, the SIU has revealed.

Assault charges against Nobody — that would be him allegedly assaulting police — were withdrawn in October, the Crown conceding there was no evidence to support the charge and, further, that Nobody’s “assaultive behaviour’’ did not amount to reasonable and probable grounds for arrest.

Yet there was a gratuitous warning as well from the Crown. “One thing, before Mr. Nobody leaves. I’ve just been provided with a number of video footage and I can indicate, should the video footage reveal a further offence, Mr. Nobody could then, at some point, could face further charges.’’

When this new videotape shooter spoke with the Star on Monday, he was careful not to paint all police during the G20 protests as brutalizing. “I think there was a lot of anger on both sides. I understand how scary it was to be a cop that day and even these . . . on the video . . . it doesn’t necessarily make them bad guys. But when you have that kind of authority, you really need to exercise some self-control.

“I wish I didn’t have to get involved. I don’t want the police force to be mad at me.’’

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